The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.

If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere

If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that's your real king.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.

Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.